This is an invitation to a final presidential debate watch Party Wed Oct 15th.
At the OFA Houston Office
4300 Lyons Ave, Suite 200 - Houston TX 77020
The debate starts at 8:00 PM, but you are welcome to come early, socialize with fellow Obama volunteers, and help us phonebank.
We are serving Chicago Style Hot Dogs with the trimmings, sponsored by Super Volunteer Gretchen Lindquist.
Please RSVP on MyBo: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs5bc7
Display Your Obama Gear!
Decorate your life in this presidential election season, stop by the office anytime and pick up an "Obama Supporter Bundle".
We have six different styles of Obama shirts including an awesome full color Andy Warhol inspired T, 10 different Obama button designs, 6 different Obama bumper stickers, lapel stickers, yard signs, and aprons.
Obama '08 America Can't Wait!
Thank for all you are doing,
Maria
"We are one people, and our time for change has come!"
~ Barack Obama
Houston Obama Leadership Team ~ OFA Houston Office is Opening Tomorrow Oct 11, 2008
Come and meet the local staffers and your fellow supporters.
Lets Rally Up Houston With Obama Love and Hope!!!
This is a great opportunity to get involved with the local campaign!
Time: Saturday, October 11 at 1:00 PM - 3 hours
Location: OFA Houston Office
4300 Lyons Ave #200
Houston, TX 77020
Directions:
North side of I-10 and East of Hwy 59
You can view the details of this event at any time by going to:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs5y77
Re: Early Voting
Early Voting Hours of Operation
Oct 20th - Oct 24th 8 am - 4:30 pm
Oct 25th 7 am - 7 pm
Oct 26th 1 pm - 6 pm
Oct 27th - Oct 31st 7 am - 7 pm
Map of your Precinct: http://hcdp.org/precinctmaps.html
Contact your Precinct Chair: http://hcdp.org/precinctchairs.php
Some Precincts are not active. If your Precinct Chair does not respond, contact the Harris County Democratic Office and volunteer to be Leadership in your community.
Harris County Website: http://hcdp.org/index.html
eSlate Voting Information: http://www.1960area.com/voting/index.html
eSlate Classes in Harris County:
http://www.harrisvotes.com/docs/eSlate%20Training%20Classes%202008.pdf
Event on MyBO
Support Barack by volunteering for
Early Voting In Your Community' -- click here to view the invitation and submit your response:
Yes We Can!
Obama For America Houston Office Opening Sat Oct 11 at 1 PM
4300 Lyons Ave #200 - Houston TX 77020
North Side of I-10, East of HWY 59 In the Fifth Ward
This is your office, come and get informed on the local Obama campaign happenings, and meet the awesome staffers.
Obama '08, America Can't Wait!!!
Maria Isabel
713.542.0721
We need to hit McCain now on this. Now! You will see the following week get bogged down in smears.
The Campaign has asked us to forward this link to everyone we knnow. Please forward this link to all your friends. I forwarded it to 157 people.
http://www.keatingeconomics.com/
Now this is very urgent! Let me tell you why: I just watched an hour long documentary by Sean Hannity on his Hannity's America show sliming Barack Obama so much it would make you vomit. The "sources" he used weren't even credible authors, but if you watched that doucmentary and had no other point of view, you wouldn't vote Obama.
So let's get the word out NOW about John McCain. Forward this link now to your friends.
Obama/Biden Family,
The OFA team strategists have designed a comprehensive and aggressive focused plan for the general election.
This plan has two components and many elements:
1. For Barack to win the “General Election”, “We Must Win Battleground States”.
2. We can win Texas.
We are 375,000 committed volunteers in Texas ready to participate and contribute to this effort.
Working together we can coordinate and move forward.
Top Assignments:
Five Weeks Commitment to travel out-of –state
Weekends out-of-state
One weekend out-of-state
Anytime out-of-state
You have the “time” but need resources such as transportation and or housing
You know someone in a Blue State that will travel for Texas to a “Battleground State”
If you have housing in a “Battleground State” to offer a volunteer
If you can not travel but can financially contribute to the “Texans to the Battleground” Fund.
Home team:
Become a Deputy Registrar – Houston Training Wed Sep 10th at 7:00 pm – Travis and Alabama, Midtown Office.
Mon - Friday between 9 am and 3 pm at 1001 Preston, second floor. Bring your voter registration card.
Become a Precinct Captain – Houston Training Wed Sep 10th at 7:00 pm - Travis and Alabama,
Midtown Office.
All our moves will be reported to Chicago.
For Houston and surrounding areas answer this email or contact: ashleyforobama@yahoo.com.
Thank you for all you're doing!
Important Voter Registration Information:
STATEWIDE INFORMATION
Sept. 5 MAIL BALLOTS: **First day to apply to County Clerk for ballot by mail for General Election.
NOTE: Persons wishing to Vote By Mail Ballot from within Harris County must first call the Clerk's Office at (713) 755-6411 and request an Application to Vote By Mail.
VOTING FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES: NOTE: Persons wishing to Vote By Mail Ballot from OUTSIDE the United States must first call the Clerk's Office at (713) 755-6411 and request The Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) in order to apply for a Mail Ballot. ** The request for a FPCA can be made anytime for there is not a date as to when this request can be made.
Oct. 6 Last day to register to vote in general election.
Oct. 20 Early voting for General Election begins.
Oct. 28 Last day for County Clerk to receive application for ballot by mail. NOTE: All applications to vote by mail must be received by the early voting clerk before the close of regular business or 12 noon, whichever is later on Oct. 28th.
Applications to vote by mail must be submitted by mail, common or contract carrier, or fax (if the applicant is absent from the county and a fax machine is available in the office of the early voting clerk).
Oct. 31 Last day of Early Voting. Nov.
4 General Election.
NOTE, from Clara:
One of our Project RAVEN members was asked to leave a Metro rail stop where he was attempting to register voters.
The Metro policeperson who asked him to leave that site did so in violation of his civil rights.
Please be advised that you have the right to register voters on public property without a permit.
If anyone approaches you and attempts to violate your rights to do that, please write down that person's name, job title, and in the case of a law enforcement officer, his or her rank and badge number.
Also, write down the date, time and location of the incident, as well as the names [addresses and phone numbers too if they will give them to you] of any witnesses who personally saw and/or heard what occurred.
Project RAVEN will go through the appropriate channels and file a complaint on your behalf. Sometimes, problems like these are due solely to ignorance and can be readily rectified by having supervisors properly instruct their personnel. We don't want anyone to get into any arguments--certainly not any physical confrontations--with authorities; however, we do want you to be firm in courteously asserting that you have the right to be on public property and to register voters there.
If the person insists that you leave, you should ask why he or she is insisting that you leave public property.
If you have any such problems please let us know.
Clara Loraine Meek
I found an interesting piece by Allen Bernstein of the Houston Chronicle describing efforts in Houston to expand the electorate.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5949705.html
I thought the comments to the interesting as well, perhaps providing some insight on who we as Obama/Biden supporters are up against.
Please consider joining this group.
Wouldn't it be powerful if people across the country join together, and send a message, literally, en mass, through the US post office to Barack Obama?
Imagine the statement that would make!
I knew the the Obama campaign had some fight in them! Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycIq8GeDxfo
Thank you Obama campaign. We've got your back!
Albert
This is a wonderful opportunity to talk about how important education is to Barack Obama!
Invitation to the "2nd Annual Back2School Houston Parade"
Saturday August 16th at 10:00 AM
Hosted by Boniswa Sundai - 713.229.8388
Location: Minute Maid Park Downtown Houston TX
Invitation to the '2nd Annual Back2School Houston Parade' -- click here to view the invitation and submit your response on My.BO:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4gds2
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You've been invited to attend 2nd Annual Back2School Houston Parade. Go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4gds2#rsvp to RSVP.
We had a Platform Discussion Meeting on July 19, 2008 and I present the results here for all:
The number one issue by consensus is to Restore open and transparent government, and reform campaign financing and elimination of corporate influence on the government. Corporations should not have all the rights of persons since they do not share in the responsibilities.Second in importance is universal healthcare that does not discriminate against age, race, economics, or pre-existing conditions.The new president can insure good health for the people of the United States, rather than profits for the insurance industry. While millions of Americans have been denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, mental health needs, pregnancy, disabilities, injuries due to rescue work after 9/11, etc., the health insurance corporations and pharmaceutical companies have been reaping record profits. The days of making money by denying health care coverage must come to an end. The US cannot continue to spend billions of dollars subsidizing the insurance industry while millions go uninsured. The private insurance industry has demonstrated that their priorities are to reward their stockholders and management, by denying needed health services to make this happen. government of the people, must enact single-payer universal health care, that allows everyone to choose their own health care provider while the government pays the costs. This will save us all money while ensuring everyone gets the health care they need.
Third: The US needs to redeem itself by leading the world by example, not by using our massive power trying to dominate the world. We need to stop acting in ways make the people of other nations hate us, ways that encourage terrorism. We need to stop protecting private mercenary forces that abuse and kill civilians with impunity in countries like Iraq, while claiming that neither US civilian nor military law applies to them. We need to help people in other countries when they need it, that will make the US stronger in the end, imposing agendas that appear to reflect imperialistic objectives are doomed to ultimate failure. A strong majority of Iraqi citizens want the US occupation to end, and we should comply with this wish. The Democratic Party, under strong leadership of a Democratic President and Congress, will immediately begin withdrawal of both troops and military contractors from Iraq, with the goal of withdrawing all of them as soon as feasible, and will start a program like the Marshall Plan to give aid to the people of Iraq without killing and terrorizing the Iraqi population. Protecting social security for future generations' peace of mind, allowing any opt-out from the system compromises the security of the system.Returning the government to fiscal responsibility and effective regulation to ensure the safety of our drugs and food supply
Strengthening our country's educational system to prepare our youth to compete in a global economyCreating an effective and responsible energy policy which promotes conservation and energy independence Restoring the Constitution's protection of civil liberties, consistent with the rule of lawRegulating free and fair trade to promote American interests while recognizing the interests and sovereignty of other nationsEnsuring a living wage for all in an effort to significantly reduce povertyFacilitating careful and compassionate immigration reformDemanding media reform that ensures fairness and opposes further consolidationHonoring veterans by providing for their needs and the needs of their familiesEnsuring American security through responsible foreign relations including an end to the war in IraqUpholding our right to vote by instituting verifiable votingSupporting the rights and equality of women so that that earn the same as men for doing the same jobPromoting affordable college education The meeting went well. Most everyone was in general agreement on the issues. In attendance was a wide spectrum of people, from University students to business executives.
176 days 3 hours 22 minutes 20 seconds
A note from our DJ:
We must be united through active and enthusiastic participation, because after all "We Are The Ones"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ghSJsEVf0pU&feature=related If not us, then whom?
United for Change 1 Nation 1 Groove Party 8-2-08
Voter Registration Drive Invitation: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25714894@N08/2696539938/sizes/l/
Keep the OBAMA faith, Mark a.k.a. "DJ Mark Anthony" 713-632-5779
My BO Event Link: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4grgf
Why Jim Webb Should be Obama's Running Mate - Dylan Loewe
If Barack Obama is nominated by the Democratic Party - every day that appears more and more likely - he will have an interesting dilemma in selecting a running mate. On the one hand, he will want to anchor the ticket with someone who can compliment his perceived weaknesses - age, experience, accomplishments. At the same time, having spent more than a year running on the banner of a new-kind-of-politics, Obama would be poorly served selecting a running mate who was borne out of the politics of old. The quandary Obama may find himself in is no easy feat to overcome; it seems almost entirely implausible that someone could anchor Obama with national experience without weighting him down with Washington experience.
There is one man, however, who fits the mold so utterly perfectly that his presence on the ticket, his presence in the universe for that matter, is the stuff of fiction, a choice that makes one wonder if any of this is real. But, in the unlikely story of Barack Obama, one should no longer be surprised.
Senator Jim Webb was elected to the U.S. Senate in a bitter battle against George Allen, a man who at the time was viewed as a likely presidential contender, and who will, instead, long be remembered as the creator of the "Macaca moment." Prior to the Senate, Webb served as Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan and before that, he was a decorated Vietnam Veteran. His rise in the Senate was remarkable in its speed and depth, and would likely be the subject of closer attention had his fellow Senator, Barack Obama, not coined the meteoric rise only two years before. On his first day in office, he introduced the 21st century version of the GI Bill, designed to provide identical benefits to post 9/11 veterans as those of World War II. He has offered amendments requiring that soldiers be given the same time at home as length of deployment, and most recently, he has threatened legal action against the Bush administration for reneging on its promise to redeploy 30,000 troops out of Iraq. He serves on the Foreign Relations Committee, the Armed Services Committee, and the Committee on Veterans Affairs. In short, his military credentials are substantial and his position on Iraq, unimpeachable.
Senator Webb has the ability to provide perspective to an Obama administration, and military gravitas to the ticket. As he has shown on Meet the Press and elsewhere, he is exceptionally talented at aggressively confronting Republicans on military issues, a skill that will be invaluable as he hammers John McCain. And having gone through a grueling Senate election fight, Webb has already been the target of the Republican attack machine. The worst they could find was a sexually explicit passage in a novel written by the Senator, a bizarre attack that did little other than to make George Allen look silly, if not sad.
What's more is that Senator Webb, despite his decades of experience in Washington, fits the post-partisan mold that Obama advocates. As a former Republican and Reagan Navy Secretary, Webb embodies the kind of change that Obama seeks and has the ability, perhaps, to attract just as many Republicans and national security Independents to the ticket as Obama. His style of speaking is firm, but eloquent, and his baritone may be matched only by Obama himself.
Vice-presidential candidates are often picked, not for their leadership, but for the geographic advantages they can offer the ticket. Virginia, which hasn't voted for a Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, is enjoying a Democratic renaissance of sorts, with a popular Democratic Governor in Tim Kaine, a popular Democratic Senator in Jim Webb, and a soon-to-be second Democratic Senator in Former Governor Mark Warner. Democrats retook control of one of its two state houses in the 2007 elections, and numerous major Republican political figures in the state are retiring, including Senator John Warner and Congressman Tom Davis (a fact that led Chris Matthews to refer to Virginia Republicans as "a party in retreat").
Earlier in the election cycle, general election match-ups between a generic Democratic presidential candidate and a generic Republican showed Democrats in the lead. And in Saturday's primary, Obama won 120,000 more votes than all of the Republicans combined. Jim Webb could help deliver Virginia to the blue state column, once and for all.
The advantage here cannot be understated. President Bush won the 2004 election with a swing of only 17 electoral votes. Virginia is worth 13 electoral votes. Add Iowa into the mix, a red state that saw a 91% increase in turnout in the Democratic caucus, and where recent polls have shown Barack Obama with a dramatic lead over John McCain, and you have yourself an electoral victory. Virginia could provide a victory to the Democrats that would need neither Florida, nor Ohio. It would not need Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico nor Missouri, states, all of which are sure-fire battlegrounds, leaning Democratic. With a Virginia win, picking up any combination of those states and others means more than just a win. It means a landslide.
Which brings me to my final point. Jim Webb does not have the perfect progressive credentials that much of the Democratic Party would expect from their Vice Presidential nominee. Though he was a co-sponsor of every major Democratic proposal in the last legislative session, and though he has been one of the most ardent and well-spoken proponents of redeployment out of Iraq, he has done things to frustrate progressives. Most recently, he voted to give immunity to telecom companies for their participation in an illegal spying program, an indefensible position.
But, counter-intuitive though it may be, Jim Webb will allow Barack Obama, and with him, the nation, to take larger strides toward moving a progressive agenda forward. Webb plugs any perceived holes in the Obama candidacy and helps deliver a state that could produce a landslide victory in November. With a landslide comes a mandate, the proof that the new majority that Obama aspires to has been built, and is ready for action. With a mandate comes the political capital that Obama will need to pass our most cherished domestic policies. Jim Webb will have a voice in the administration, but when President Obama disagrees with him, no one will need reminding of whose chair it is behind the desk. And Jim Webb, who will be 70 years old in 2016, will be unlikely to seek the presidency at the end of eight Obama years.
Throughout modern American history, there has never been a vice president who could offer all that Jim Webb can: an affirmation of political philosophy, a geographic electoral advantage, and an anchoring effect. Barack Obama will have a serious decision to make if he wins the nomination. The choice however, should be easy.
